【Mindfulness of Death 念死无常】This may frighten you, yet, for the time being, you cannot stop it. 被无明所被动

【Mindfulness of Death】- This may frighten you, yet, for the time being, you cannot stop it.

For instance, let’s take this place as an example. Say, you are not allowed to live here anymore. You have to leave. You will feel that your future is full of uncertainty if you leave this place. You do not know where to go! At that time, alas, you will be extremely regretful. Another way is to say that this place will have a great disaster in the future or perhaps this place will become a slum district. Now, a very good house has been built in that place. You are not allowed to live here but to move to that place. Oh, everyone will scramble to that place. No one thing in this mundane world is an exception. But this kind of thing is passive, and as for dharma, we understand everything is Karma. With karma, if you understand it, you can say that you can completely initiate it (you can completely drive the process). Before you understand, you would feel that you are passive (you are being driven in the process). Actually who takes the initiative (who drives the process)? Ignorance takes the initiative which makes you passive and can only react to it. Therefore, when we truly cultivate, we are cultivating this.

SOURCE 来源 :

38A 28’51 & 38B 00’03” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P186 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P148

日常师父法语📡38A 28’51” & 38B 00’03”手抄稿第5册P186 L6

念死无常 : 被无明所被动

就譬如说我们现在这个地方来说，这个地方说不准，你呀，不让你住了，让你走；说不让你住了，让你走，你觉得离开了这个地方，前途茫茫，不晓得哪里去啦！那个时候，唉！你忧悔万分。另外一个办法，说这个地方将来有大灾难，或者这个地方是个贫民区，现在那地方造好了很好的房子；不让你住了，搬到那个地方去，喔唷，大家争先恐后到那个地方去，这世间没有一件事情是例外的。不过这种事情是被动的，而佛法这件事情，我们了解一切都是业，业这个东西你了解了，也可以说完全是你主动的，在你不了解之前，你觉得是被动的，实际上呢被什么被动？被无明所被动。所以，我们真正要修，就是修这个。